One of the difficulties "our One! children" have in furthering their education, is the lack of proof of who they are and how old they are - they don't have birth certificates. Tania, after consultation with the parents, will give the child a birthdate - everyone needs a birthdate for celebration.
In order to properly make use of the Indian school system(access and grade certificates) the children require a birth certificate. Proof of obtaining a grade seven certificate is required before they are allowed to challenge the Grade 10 exams. Passing these exams allows them to go on to college.
One of our teachers, Anil, has been working hard over the last few years to get birth certificates for some of our children. Less than 5% of the children allready have them. Anil has found a few people willing to help and he has already been successful in obtaining several birth certificates for our children.
The next challenge will be to see if One!International can certify that the student has reached a certain level of education.
We have several young people who are close to being able to challenge the grade 10 exams.
However, we are very very proud of Sunil.
In 2009 Sunil wrote and passed two grade 10 exams: Home Sciences and Computer Literacy.
This year in April he wrote three more exams: Math, English, and Bussiness.
We have to wait until August to see if he passed these exams.
Sunil is committed to continuing writing his exams. Sunil is an incredible artist, and it would be wonderful if he was able to pursue such a career.
The effects of him trying to pass the grade 10 exams are already felt within the student population. Several of the older young people are indicating they would also like to write the exams.
What a wonderful role model Sunil has become.
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